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Schöpfung
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Johannes Molzahn (1892-1965)
Schöpfung
signed 'Joh. Molzahn' (lower left); signed, titled and dated 'Joh. Molzahn Schöpfung 1917' (on the artist's mount)
watercolour and gouache on paper
image: 17½ x 12 in. (44.4 x 30.5 cm.)
mount: 21¼ x 14 3/8 in. (54 x 36.5 cm.)
Executed in 1917
Schöpfung
signed 'Joh. Molzahn' (lower left); signed, titled and dated 'Joh. Molzahn Schöpfung 1917' (on the artist's mount)
watercolour and gouache on paper
image: 17½ x 12 in. (44.4 x 30.5 cm.)
mount: 21¼ x 14 3/8 in. (54 x 36.5 cm.)
Executed in 1917
Provenance
The artist's estate (opus no. A.P./020/1917).
Loretto Molzahn, Kassel-Wilhelmshohe.
Private collection, Germany, by whom acquired from the above in the 1960s; sale, Christie's, London, 8 October 1998, lot 123.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Loretto Molzahn, Kassel-Wilhelmshohe.
Private collection, Germany, by whom acquired from the above in the 1960s; sale, Christie's, London, 8 October 1998, lot 123.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
H. Schade, Johannes Molzahn, Zurich, 1972, p. 28.
Exhibited
Berlin, Galerie der Sturm (Herwarth Walden).
Munich, Katholische Akademie in Bayern, Kardinal-Wendel Haus, Johannes Molzahn, 1972, no. 51.
Berlin, Kunstamt Berlin-Charlottenburg, Johannes Molzahn, 1973, no. 47.
Regensburg, Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg, Johannes Molzahn, 1974, no. 71.
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Expressionist Utopias: Paradise, Metropolis, Architectural Fantasy, October 1993 - January 1994, no. 69 (illustrated p. 59).
Munich, Katholische Akademie in Bayern, Kardinal-Wendel Haus, Johannes Molzahn, 1972, no. 51.
Berlin, Kunstamt Berlin-Charlottenburg, Johannes Molzahn, 1973, no. 47.
Regensburg, Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg, Johannes Molzahn, 1974, no. 71.
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Expressionist Utopias: Paradise, Metropolis, Architectural Fantasy, October 1993 - January 1994, no. 69 (illustrated p. 59).
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